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SOLVED: Adult Fiction > SOLVED. Adult Historic (Holocaust) fiction read in 2022. Multiple POV about a Nazi abortion doctor and a little girl sent to a "special school" from the ghetto. [s]

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message 1: by SamSpayedPI (last edited May 04, 2023 06:20AM) (new) - rated it 4 stars

SamSpayedPI | 2306 comments I just listened to this as an audiobook last year; I can't figure out why it's not in any of my histories (Goodreads, library, Kindle, or Audible. I have to have gotten it from somewhere! I think it's something of a recent novel; I'm pretty sure it's from the last decade.

It's a dual POV (the audiobook has two narrators) about a Nazi abortion doctor in one of the Jewish ghettos. His father got him the job. There's a lot about the tension between his father, a Nazi official, and the doctor, who's at best ambivalent about the Nazis, and grows to hate them during the course of the novel.

He gives an abortion to a woman whose daughter is the other POV in the novel. She's snuck out of the ghetto and somehow ends up at a special "school" which turns out to be some sort of Lebensborn home, in which the children (and babies of the older girls) are adopted out to Arian homes. The girl is horribly abused at the school. (view spoiler)


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Becca (beccalikesbooks) | 5545 comments Broken Angels by Gemma Liviero?


message 3: by SamSpayedPI (last edited May 05, 2023 02:22PM) (new) - rated it 4 stars

SamSpayedPI | 2306 comments That's it, Becca! Thank you so much! I seem to have conflated the daughter with a third character; it's really three POVs.


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Becca (beccalikesbooks) | 5545 comments You're welcome - glad to help!


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